[Python-ideas] Rough draft: Proposed format specifier for a thousands separator (discussion moved from python-dev)

[Bruce Frederiksen]

Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>    James Knight observed that Indian/Pakistani numbering systems
>    group by hundreds.   
I'm not 100% sure here, but I believe that in India, they insert a 
separator after the first 3 digits, then another after 2 more digits, 
then every 3 digits after that (not sure if they use commas or periods, 
I think commas):

1,000,000,00,000

-bruce